He attained international renown and recognition for his scholarly contribution to the Dvaita Vedanta literary treasure.

His History of Dvaita School Of Vedanta And Its Literature is a monumental work which brought him the highest national literary distinction of the Sahitya Academy Award in 1963.

Due to Brahmin origins, people started calling him "Sharma" and later it became part of his name.

His family migrated from present-day North Karnataka to Kumbakonam of Thanjavur district and later to Cochin and Coimbatore.

[4] Sharma received his Ph.D. from University of Madras in 1948 for his thesis on the origin and development of the Dvaita School of Vedanta and its literature.

In 1953 he finally landed in Maharashtra, where he was appointed as professor and Head of the Department of Sanskrit in Ruparel College in Mumbai and retired in 1969.

[12]" Dr. B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma is the author of "History of the Dvaita School of Vedānta and Its Literature: From the Earliest Beginnings to Our Own Times", (Motilal Banarsidass, 1962).

Sharma gives in this work a comprehensive account of the Dvaita School of Vedanta and Its Literature, from the earliest beginning to our own times.

He has in this volume added to this magisterial History of Dvaita School (2nd Edition 1981) and other writing with an exposition and unfolding of Vyasatirtha's Nyayamruta.

Although the Neo-Vedantin philosophy of Swami Vivekananda was an important riposte to the critiques of Indian religion and philosophy launched by many missionaries and colonial administrator, and so became a potent weapon in the defense of Indian nationalism its great influence has indeed tended to obscure the real total shape of Vedanta taken in its various forms.

B N. K. Sharma is the author of The Brahmasutras and Their Principal Commentaries A Critical Exposition of 3 volumes, (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1974) "For various reasons Advaita has had a dominant position in the consciousness of Indian tradition aroused by writers in the nationalist period-for instance by Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan.

It adds to the use of the work that though essentially the commentary is in English it includes a full notation in Sanskrit to assist the scholar.

Dr. Sharma interest in Dvaita is reflected in a fully balanced way in which he shows the positions of Samkara, Ramanuja and Madhvacharya (thought he also of course draws on other positions-Indian both ancient and modern and Western)".B.

[1] Sharma's greatest achievement was making Dvaita philosophy accessible to the outside world through his English works and literature.

Panchamukhi, Surendranath Dasgupta, and K. Narain exposed and showed the importance of the Dvaita Vedanta in Indian philosophy to the Western world through their English works.

Professor L. Stafford Betty says, "Dasgupta, K. Narain and B.N.K.Sharma - the three twentieth-century scholars who are perhaps most responsible for exposing the West to Vedantic Dualism (Dvaita)".

[19] Noted historian George M. Moraes says, B. N. K. Sharma along with R. D. Ranade, R. S. Panchamukhi and K. T. Pandurangi as a few of the eminent scholars who brought out the works of Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa and other saints with critical appreciation.

However, a number of prominent writers have laid the foundations for the deeper appreciation of the patterns of Indian thought.

Sharma married Hemalatha, who hails from the Myleripalem Jagirdar family belonging to the same community.